I don’t think they’ll like where it ends up taking them.

Who were they planning to prosecute?

Tenet?
Pelosi?

obviously, they should be prosecuted.

Plain and simple, fear Holder more than you fear the terrorist, do not do anything wrong for you may be prosecuted for following procedures. Priceless. What is the term that is reserved for following orders of something that was legal then being prosecuted for the act when the act become illegal?

He has united the left behind him, and he’s determined to unite the rest of us in prison.

Damn the Constitution, full speed astern.

The victims get to present their case, and it gets to be televised. They really have a pretty good track record of backfiring. This gives all the indication of being a case of hoist by their own petard.

Is everything about him and his useless ideology? He takes arrogance to a new level. He has no leadership experience and yet he knows everything! Everyone is wrong but him. Its amazing!

So, I don’t think that the enhanced interrogation techniques I’ve read about so far constitute torture. Just want to get that out.

But let’s say that top level officials were involved in approving or ordering actual torture…like electrodes and finger chopping and whatnot. If that’s the case, I want to see them prosecuted. I don’t care who they are; Democrat, Republican, or whatever. We have to have standards in this country, and as far as I read it, torture is illegal under US law.

If we want to pass legislation making it legal for us to torture people, then we should. But people who break the law have to be punished.

must have really struck a nerve. What a poor, weak, obsequious little man is our Barry, in thrall to pear-shaped perverted baseball card collector.

Of course they want civil war so they can respond with martial law leading to a complete collapse of America as we know it to be replaced with a socialist paradise.

Obama is engaging in “this cockamamie theory of Unitary government” WAAAAAY more than Bush ever did. He’s stiffing Congress by appointing “czars” that don’t require Senate confirmation and giving all sorts of powers to himself and his comrades that violate the Constitution left and right.

with lots of former admin and Gopers. then a fast gavel and adjournment for the day or week. the testimony will be left hanging in the air.
Job one, Job done. It could go on like this all summer.

The actual people who acted under the memos will not prosecuted, President Obama has ruled that out (might still happen). What he wants to prosecute is those who drafted the memorandums. This is how he gets just the Republicans. Doesn’t matter who was briefed, the lawyers are at fault.

Which means, the lawyers will be prosecuted for providing legal advice. Now some might argue, crime/fraud exception to giving legal advice. However, since it is arguable whether or not a crime was committed, that exception would not apply. Therefore, the lawyers would be prosecuted for giving advice that they are required by their profession and codes of conduct to give.

If these prosecutions go through, you will see a chilling effect on the entire legal community. No one will want to give advice with this as a precedent. It would mean any advice that turns out to not be acceptable to a group would then become criminal behavior. No lawyer will want to take the risk of not just losing their law license but their freedom.

Before anyone says “good, lawyers are the problem” remember that the next time you need one to advise you on the home purchase, your will, or after your are in a car accident (God forbid). You want the best advice available, not the one that has been so sanitized and hedged around with maybes as to be useless.

This is the best thing that could possibly happen. The left will never get this genie back into the bottle, once it is loose there will be no stopping it. The spectable of a former American president being put on trial for effectively performing his duties as commander in chief will be catastrophic to the democrat party. Once our courts are done with them, how can they stop international courts from doing the same thing? The democrats will have no choice but to side with spineless socialist governments as they put our citizens on trial for doing their duty as they saw it. One way or another, it will be the great turning point in this entire debate. This will force the issue in a way that nothing else possibly could.

is sickening.

The problem the administration is having is that Americans increasingly find Obama’s policies distasteful if not dangerous.

What he is trying to do is cover up his slide in overseas prestige and his reputation deficit at home by making a show of cleansing all of the bad from our government.

It was hard to believe that blame bush could be the overriding theme with all that is going on, but those dunderheads are going to continue beating that dead horse and any other dead horses that they can manufacture. We can expect no less after the oil and banking show trials. Obama does need a miracle to hide his ugly policies. (Infanticide, NEA pandering, amnesty, wealth destruction…) Flogging the torture and Iraq meme gets him all those touchy feely press releases and yes, even better, righteous indignation about the sins that have come before him.

When has an American president ever acted in such a craven way? Will this solve even one of the overwhelming problems we face? Will even one child get the quality education he deserves? Are we going to deter even one terrorist foreign or domestic from planning and carrying out further attacks? Do the jobless become less despondent or the entrepreneurs more confident?

Well, America is just beginning to wake up and Obama may be planning to rise above it all, but he is not fooling me, nor many others. This fancy dance about pillorying lawyers for doing their job will not disguise the fact that he does not know what to do about any of these things. If he really believed in himself, we would not have to put up with his silly posturing. The guy was styrofoam all through the campaign and he is no more substantive than a fart in a hurricane.

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for throwing Scooter under the bus, thinking that would make it all go away.

“out of principle” are really, really happy with this.